herse, hearse

[HEARSE.] I. Ordinary Language : IMG:content-1142.jpg:[blocks in formation] II. Technically : Spenser: Shepherd's Calendar ; Nov. 1. Fort .: A kind of gate or portcullis, with iron bars like a harrow, set in with iron pikes, placed above gates, and lowered to impede the advance of an enemy. ( Voyle .) 2. Skin - dre ing : A rectangular frame for stretching a skin, which is to remove its wrinkles and hold it while being scraped. Skins for parchment are thus stretched for fleshing, scraping, and grinding, her-self', *hir-self, pron . [Eng. her , and self . ] The reflexive form of feminine pronoun of the third person singular; also used in emphasis. 2174 *her-ship, s. [A. S. herian =to plunder; -ship.] 1. Plunder, pillage, destruction. "It grieved him (he said) to see sic hership and waste and depredation." -Scott: Rob Roy, ch. xxvi. hesperis hes-për-ět-ic, a. [Eng., ., hesperet (in); -ic.) See the compound. hesperetic-acid, s. Chem.: C10H1004. Obtained by the action of 3. The cattle so driven or carried off.